Proverbs and old sayings Italian, page 86

1826 proverbs and old sayings italian

Tell your secret to your friend and he will set his foot on your neck.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about secret

Every potter praises his pot, and most of all the one that is cracked.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about games

The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

He who is embarked with the devil must make the passage in his company.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about companies, devil

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

With the first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about companies, wife

In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin, man

Don't even take a bath with fools, because they'll throw away the soap.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who divides honey with the bear, will be like to get the lesser share..

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about eyes

He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is contemptible.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about revenge

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, house

Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A woman who cries, a man who swears, a horse that sweats, all imposture.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, man

When there is a fire in the neighbourhood carry water to your own house.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, home, house, water

If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, old, olderness

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about mistake, man

Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not those of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sin

Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian